Pelosi tells Dems she wants to see Trump ‘in prison’  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi told senior Democrats that she'd like to see President Donald Trump “in prison” as she clashed with House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler in a meeting on Tuesday night over whether to launch impeachment proceedings.

Warren wishes handcuffs for Trump, says Biden wrong on abortion  —  The Massachusetts Democrat and 2020 contender let loose at an MSNBC town hall in Indiana.  —  FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Sen. Elizabeth Warren said at an MSNBC town hall on Wednesday night that Joe Biden is wrong for supporting …

Trump's catastrophic fashion choices in England were not just a sign of bad taste  —  The president and first lady have landed in Ireland.  They have left the pomp and pageantry of England.  Melania Trump has removed her Phillip Treacy hat.  The president is once again in a business suit and his too-long ties.

YouTube Punishes Steven Crowder for Homophobic Speech, a Confused Approach to an Unsolvable Problem  —  In the last 24 hours, YouTube declined to punish conservative content creator Steven Crowder for homophobic speech directed at a gay Vox journalist, then debuted a far-reaching ban on extremist videos …

Trump to stay at Doonbeg, his money-losing golf course threatened by climate change  —  President Trump arrived at his golf course in Doonbeg, Ireland, on Wednesday for a two-night stay — pausing between official events in Europe to visit a business that has cost him $41 million and never reported turning a profit.

POLITICO Playbook: Guess who else voted against federal funding for abortion?  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THE THING ABOUT THE HYDE AMENDMENT ... Over the last day, there's been a pile-on on JOE BIDEN — Beto O'Rourke, Elizabeth Warren and others have ganged up against the former VP over his support …

John James announces 2020 campaign for U.S. Senate  —  Michigan businessman and Iraq war veteran John James announced he will seek the Republican Party's nomination for U.S. Senate in 2020.  —  James, 37, announced he filed to run “after careful consideration and thoughtful prayer” …

A wealthy Iraqi sheikh who urges a hard-line U.S. approach to Iran spent 26 nights at Trump's D.C. hotel  —  In July, a wealthy Iraqi sheikh named Nahro al-Kasnazan wrote letters to national security adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging them to forge closer ties …

The Shadow of 1998  —  Revisiting and reassessing the GOP's poor showing and the role of impeachment in the result  —  KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE  — The 1998 election has invariably come up a lot as House Democrats consider whether to impeach President Donald Trump.

Military to spend a month painting border barriers to “improve aesthetic appearance”  —  Washington — Members of the military deployed near the U.S.-Mexico border have been assigned to spend a month painting a mile-long stretch of barriers to improve their “aesthetic appearance.”

Trump's empty Cabinet positions have exceeded any recent president, and it's not even close  —  No president in recent history has started their tenure with as many extended Cabinet vacancies as President Trump.  —  Why it matters: Trump has been happy to fill many of the positions with …

Biden puts Texas in play, pulling ahead of Trump 48-44 in new poll and exposing 2020 peril for GOP  —  WASHINGTON — A new Texas poll shows President Donald Trump losing 48-44 to former Vice President Joe Biden.  —  The Quinnipiac University Poll, released Wednesday afternoon …

Trump admits his Cabinet had ‘some clinkers’  —  The Best People: Trump's Cabinet and the Siege on Washington" by Alexander Nazaryan.  Copyright © 2019.  Available from Hachette Books, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc.  —  They were the best people, the finest in the land, tasked with returning the nation to greatness.

America's White Saviors  —  To understand the motivations behind the “great awokening” we must first review some of the basics of political psychology.  Social scientists use a model called “The Big Five personality traits” or “five-factor model” to describe how the relative prevalence …

Trump's method to the madness on trade  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is not winging it.  —  Or at least he's not totally winging it.  —  However improvisational his daily machinations on trade — presenting publicly as motivated by a random mix of mood and twitches of the news cycle …

Kamala Harris ramps up staff, organizing in Iowa: 'It's game on.'  —  California Sen. Kamala Harris is scaling up her focus on Iowa, promising to bring on at least 65 paid staffers by July and launch a summer organizing push targeted at the precinct level.  —  “It's game on,” said Harris' Iowa campaign chairwoman, Deidre DeJear.

Who Cares About the Supreme Court's ‘Legitimacy’?  —  Conservatives seem to assume that only the chief justice is moved by fears that he and his colleagues will end up looking like politicians in robes.  —  In a rational world, the Supreme Court would hit the pause button on the pending census case …

By Banning Jewish and Israeli Symbols, DC Dyke March Undermines Its Intended Purpose  —  Photo via Sarah Stierch/Wikimedia Commons  —  By Banning the Jewish Pride Flag and Israeli Symbols, DC Dyke March Undermines Its Intended Purpose  —  As a coalition of LGBTQ, Jewish, and feminist organizations …

Joe Biden Worked to Undermine the Affordable Care Act's Coverage of Contraception  —  As vice president, Joe Biden repeatedly sought to undermine the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate, working in alliance with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to push for a broad exemption …

North Carolina Legislature Fails to Overturn Governor's Veto of Anti-Abortion Bill  —  In a rare defeat for anti-abortion activists in the South, North Carolina Republicans failed on Wednesday to overturn a veto of a bill that would have made it a crime to not treat “any infant born alive after an abortion.”

2020 Dems have widespread problem of lifting policy material  —  Twenty-four hours after Joe Biden's campaign was taken to task for lifting portions of a climate change plan without citation, it's clear that the former vice president has plenty of company.  —  A sampling of policy proposals …

Still no briefing for Senate intel panel on Mueller report: sources  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The only committee of the U.S. Congress running a genuinely bipartisan probe of Russian meddling in U.S. politics has still had no word from the Trump administration on briefing the panel …

Bernie Sanders Wants to Change America.  But He May Have to Change Himself First.  —  Bernie Sanders wants to make a joke.  Pretty good joke, he thinks.  He is slumped in a window seat in coach on a plane parked at Chicago O'Hare.  He has about an hour in transit to get the joke into his next speech.

Lies?  The news media is starting to describe Trump's ‘falsehoods’ that way.  —  It's (almost) official: The president of the United States is a liar.  —  This will not come as a revelation to people who have closely followed President Trump's public statements and Twitter feed and have long doubted his veracity.

Overlooked No More: Alan Turing, Condemned Code Breaker and Computer Visionary  —  His ideas led to early versions of modern computing and helped win World War II.  Yet he died as a criminal for his homosexuality. … LONDON — His genius embraced the first visions of modern computing …

High-flying ladybug swarm shows up on National Weather Service radar  —  At first glance, it looks like a rain cloud.  —  But in reality, the massive blob showing up Tuesday evening on the National Weather Service's radar in San Diego County was just a lot of ladybugs.